Requirements

Installation

Globally:

$ sudo npm install -g iectrl

Locally:

$ npm install iectrl

Usage

Command Line Interface

The iectrl command provides various sub-commands for manipulating one or many
ievms virtual machines. The optional names argument may be a comma-separated
(no spaces) list of virtual machine identifiers. The identifiers consist of
a number representing a given version of IE, an OS name
(WinXP/Vista/Win7/Win8), or an exact virtual machine name (IE6 - WinXP,
IE7 - Vista). See iectrl <sub-command> --help for more information:

$ iectrl --help

Usage: iectrl [options] [command]

Commands:

clean [names] restore virtual machines to the clean snapshot

close [names] close all running IE processes in virtual machines

install [options] [names] install virtual machines with ievms

nuke [names] remove all traces of virtual machines

list list available virtual machines

open [options] [names] [url] open a URL in IE

rearm [options] [names] rearm virtual machines

reinstall [options] [names] reinstall virtual machines

restart [options] [names] restart virtual machines

screenshot [names] [output] save screenshots forvirtual machines

shrink [options] [names] shrink disk usage forvirtual machines

start [options] [names] start virtual machines

status [options] [names] report the status of one or more vms

stop [options] [names] stop virtual machines

uninstall [options] [names] uninstall virtual machines

uploaded [names] report the last time the VM was uploaded to modern.ie